H039
Coupled Flow Processes in Fractured Media Across Scales: Experimental and Modeling Advances
Session ID#: 72771
Session Description:
In fractured media, fluid flow depends on and induces coupled processes (hydrogeological-mechanical-chemical-biological-thermal) across a wide range of time and length scales. Understanding fluid flow and its coupling with different processes is critical for numerous subsurface applications including petroleum and geothermal reservoir management, environmental remediation, carbon sequestration, and long-term radioactive waste isolation. This session focuses on recent research that provides mechanistic understanding and predictive capability of physical processes in fractured media including coupled flow and geomechanics, non-Fickian transport, colloid and bacterial transport, mixing and reaction, fluid/mineral interactions, and biofilm formation. In particular, we encourage submissions related to (1) experiments and field observations, (2) new theoretical and numerical modeling approaches (direct simulation in single fractures, discrete fracture network modeling, upscaling methodologies, and multi-scale methods), and (3) the integration of data and models for observational interpretation and model validation.
Index Terms:
1805 Computational hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1822 Geomechanics [HYDROLOGY]
1829 Groundwater hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1832 Groundwater transport [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener: Jeffrey Hyman, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, AZ, United States
Conveners: Peter Kyungchul Kang, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Jan-Olof Selroos, Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB), Solna, Sweden and Philippe Davy, Géosciences Rennes, Rennes Cedex, France
Primary Liaison: Jeffrey Hyman, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, AZ, United States
Infiltration Experiment (INEX) at Olkiluoto Site: Evaluation of Buffering Properties and Capacity of Bedrock against Acidic and Oxygenated Infiltrating Water (486923)
Tiina Lamminmäki1, Petteri Pitkänen1, Paolo Trinchero2, Erik Gustafsson3, Karsten Pedersen4, Jere Komulainen1 and Jorge Molinero2, (1)Posiva Oy, Eurajoki, Finland, (2)Amphos 21, Barcelona, Spain, (3)Geosigma, Uppsala, Sweden, (4)Microbial Analytics Sweden AB, Mölnlycke, Sweden
Probabilistic inference of fracture aperture fields using single-hole ground-penetrating radar data within a coupled hydrogeophysical inversion framework (Invited) (489713)
Niklas Linde, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Alexis Shakas, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Olivier Bour, Univ Rennes, CNRS, Géosciences Rennes - UMR 6118, Rennes, France and Tanguy Le Borgne, University of Rennes, Geosciences Rennes, CNRS, UMR 6118, Rennes Cedex, France
Assessing heterogeneous retention in radionuclide transport in fractured rocks (489953)
Paolo Trinchero1, Vladimir Cvetkovic2, Jan-Olof Selroos3, Guido Deissmann4 and Dirk Bosbach4, (1)Amphos 21, Barcelona, Spain, (2)Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (3)Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB), Solna, Sweden, (4)Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
Modeling CO2-Water-Basalt Reactions Effect to Fracture Alteration in a Basalt Fracture Network (491289)
Hao Wu1, Richard Jayne Jr1 and Ryan M Pollyea2, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (2)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Geoscience, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Modeling of Dynamic Rock–Fluid Interaction Using Coupled 3‐D Discrete Element and Lattice Boltzmann Methods (493365)
Michael Gardner, University of Nevada Reno, Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, NV, United States and Nicholas Sitar, University of California Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, CA, United States
Are fractured carbonate rocks an appropriate geological medium for nuclear waste disposal? Lessons from a field-scale transport experiment (501026)
Emily Lena Tran, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, Paul W. Reimus, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Ofra Klein-BenDavid, Nuclear Research Center of the Negev, BeerSheba, Israel, Nadya Teutsch, Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, Annie B Kersting, LLNL, Livermore, CA, United States, Noam Weisbrod, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel and Mavrik Zavarin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Deployment of Silica Gels to prevent CO2 leakage in and near wellbore environment (501093)
Sobhan Hatami1, Stuart Walsh2, Tom Hughes2 and Hamid Roshan3, (1)Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, (2)Monash University, Department of Civil Engineering, Melbourne, Australia, (3)University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
DFN.lab: software platform for Discrete Fracture Network models. (501975)
Romain Le Goc1, Benoit Pinier2, Caroline Darcel1, Etienne Lavoine1,2, Diane Doolaeghe1,2, Silvia de Simone2, Jean-Raynald De Dreuzy2 and Philippe Davy2, (1)Itasca Consultants SAS, Lyon, France, (2)Géosciences Rennes, Rennes Cedex, France
SKB Task Force GWFTS: Increasing the Realism of Solute Transport Modelling in Fractured Media (502290)
Björn Gylling1, Paolo Trinchero2, Josep M Soler Matamala3, Kersti Nilsson4, George W Lanyon5, Jan-Olof Selroos6, Antti Poteri7 and Lasse Koskinen7, (1)Gylling GeoSolutions, Evanston, IL, United States, (2)Amphos 21, Barcelona, Spain, (3)IDAEA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, (4)Geosigma AB, Uppsala, Sweden, (5)Fracture Systems Ltd., Cornwall, TR26, United Kingdom, (6)Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB), Solna, Sweden, (7)Posiva Oy, Eurajoki, Finland
Fracture Characterization, Modeling of Hydrology and Non-Reactive Transport at the Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory, Japan. (503291)
Teklu Hadgu, Sandia National Laboratories, Nuclear Waste Disposal Research and Analysis, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Yifeng Wang, Sandia National Lab, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Elena Kalinina, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Validation of hydraulic models in fractured rocks. Application to the Forsmark site (Sweden) (505839)
Philippe Davy1,2, Romain Le Goc3, Caroline Darcel3, Jan-Olof Selroos4 and Diane Doolaeghe3, (1)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (2)University of Rennes, Rennes Cedex, France, (3)Itasca Consultants SAS, Lyon, France, (4)Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB), Solna, Sweden
The Emergence of Stable Laws for Breakthrough Curves in Three-Dimensional Discrete Fracture Networks (510505)
Marco Dentz, IDAEA-CSIC, Institute of Enviromental Assessment and Water Research, Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, Spain, Jeffrey Hyman, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, AZ, United States, Aric Hagberg, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States and Peter Kyungchul Kang, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Pore-scale mechanism of enhanced non-Fickian transport through residual NAPL zone in porous media (513109)
Zhi Dou1, Xueyi Zhang2, Jinguo Wang1, Zhou Chen2, Chao Zhuang1, Zhifang Zhou1 and Yanrong Zhao2, (1)Hohai University, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing, China, (2)Hohai University, Nanjing, China
A field assessment of the ability of Ground Penetrating Radar to detect fractures in very low permeable crystalline rock. (515753)
Justine Molron1,2, Niklas Linde3, Ludovic Baron3, Jan-Olof Selroos4, Caroline Darcel5 and Philippe Davy2, (1)Itasca Consultants S.A.S, Lyon, France, (2)Géosciences Rennes, Rennes Cedex, France, (3)University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, (4)Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB), Solna, Sweden, (5)Itasca Consultants SAS, Lyon, France
Assessing Discrete Fracture Network flow properties with graphs: method and applications. (515875)
Diane Doolaeghe1,2, Philippe Davy2, Caroline Darcel1, Romain Le Goc1, Benoit Pinier2 and Jan-Olof Selroos3, (1)Itasca Consultants SAS, Lyon, France, (2)Géosciences Rennes, Rennes Cedex, France, (3)Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB), Solna, Sweden
New insights into the effect of barometric variations on gas transport in fractured rock (518803)
Dylan R Harp1, John P Ortiz2, Phil H Stauffer1, Suzanne Michelle Bourret3 and Edward Michael Kwicklis3, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Shallow Gas Diffusion Experiments through a Phreatic Fractured Aquifer (519259)
Sofia Avendano1, Melinda Horne2, Mark Austin Person3, Dylan R Harp1, Eugene Gorman4, Charles R Carrigan5, Phil H Stauffer1 and Anastasia F Stroujkova6, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, NM, United States, (3)New Mexico Tech, Earth & Environmental Science, Socorro, NM, United States, (4)Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (5)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (6)Weston Geophysical Corporation Lexington, Lexington, MA, United States
Polymer Network Materials for Wellbore Repair: Curing kinetics and physical properties of thiol-crosslinked PEOD/DGEBA Copolymers (523140)
Bryan S Beckingham1, Michael J. Minkler1, Xinyu Hou2, Chidera Onyedikachi Iloejesi1, Anton K Schindler3 and Lauren E Beckingham4, (1)Auburn University, Chemical Engineering, Auburn, AL, United States, (2)Auburn University, Chemical Engineering, Auburn, United States, (3)Auburn University, Civil Engineering, Auburn, United States, (4)Auburn University, Department of Civil Engineering, Auburn, AL, United States
Predictive model for colloid transport through rough fractures under unfavorable attachment conditions (531474)
Lichun Wang, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, Lizhi Zheng, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China, Scott C James, Baylor University, Geosciences and Mechanical Engineering, Waco, TX, United States and Constantinos V. Chrysikopoulos, Technical University of Crete, Environmental Engineering, Chania, Greece
Modeling of Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical coupled processes in fractured media by Discrete Fracture Network (533375)
Silvia De Simone1, Romain Le Goc2, Benoit Pinier1, Caroline Darcel2, Olivier Bour3 and Philippe Davy1, (1)Géosciences Rennes, Rennes Cedex, France, (2)Itasca Consultants SAS, Lyon, France, (3)Univ Rennes, CNRS, Géosciences Rennes - UMR 6118, Rennes, France
The competing effects of inertial losses and fracture dilation on the permeability of fractured rocks (536271)
Jiaqing Zhou1, Yifeng Chen2, Huiming Tang1, Lichun Wang3 and M. Bayani Cardenas3, (1)China University of Geosciences, Faculty of Engineering, Wuhan, China, (2)State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States
Representing small-scale heterogeneity in simulated radionuclide transport through brittle fault zones (537536)
Thomas Richard Nicholas Williams1, Paolo Trinchero2, Guanqun Gai1, Scott L Painter3, Jordi Sanglas2 and Jan-Olof Selroos4, (1)Wood, Didcot, United Kingdom, (2)Amphos 21, Barcelona, Spain, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (4)Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB), Solna, Sweden
Simulation of multiphase CO2 migration in storage reservoir using discrete fracture network model (546815)
Nataliia Makedonska1, Rajesh Pawar2 and Carl W Gable1, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Evaluation of the impact of geological parameters on subsurface mass transport of Xenon from underground nuclear explosions (552103)
Tara Ann Scarborough1, Justin David Lowrey1, Thomas W Wietsma2 and Mark Rockhold1, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Fracture and stress characterization in crystalline rocks – Fracture displacement measurements associated with water injection in the COSC-1 borehole, Sweden (553905)
Patrick F Dobson1, Yves Guglielmi1, Paul J Cook1, Auli P Niemi2, Christopher Juhlin2, Chin Fu Tsang1,2, Benoît Dessirier3, Alexandru Tatomir2, Henning Lorenz2, Farzad Basirat2, Bjarne Sven Guestav Almqvist2, Emil Lundberg2 and Jan-Erik Rosberg4, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Uppsala University, Earth Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, (3)Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, (4)Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Determination of Fracture Apertures via Calibration of Discrete Fracture Network Models (560885)
Rishi Parashar, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Hai V Pham, Louisiana State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and Nicole Lyn Sund, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States
Gas Transport Under Far-From (Capillary) Equilibrium Conditions: Topological Dependencies, Feedbacks, and Mechanical Couplings (564660)
Jason E Heath1, Thomas A Dewers2, Teklu Hadgu2, Yifeng Wang2, Edward N Matteo2 and Nicholas W Hayman3, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Geomechanics, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Nuclear Waste Disposal Research and Analysis, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)University of Texas, Jackson School of Geosciences, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States
Characterization of Fluid Flow and Energy Exchange in a Natural Rough-Walled Fracture (566367)
Noah Vriese, Madison, Wisconsin, United States, Michael A Cardiff, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States, Hiroki Sone, University of Wisconsin, Geological Engineering Program, Madison, WI, United States and Lucas Zoet, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Geoscience, Madison, WI, United States
Monitoring the Evolution of Xe-127 Gas in a Legacy Nuclear Explosion Chimney (568645)
Christine Johnson1, Thomas Alexander1, Jim Fast1, Brad Fritz1, James C Hayes1, Randy Kirkham1, Justin David Lowrey1, Emily K Mace1, Michael Mayer1, Justin McIntyre1, Brian Milbrath1, Khris Olsen1, Amanda Prinke1, Michael Ripplinger1, Reynold Suarez1, Vincent Woods1, Lirong Zhong1, Veraun Chipman2, Heather Huckins-Gang2, Margaret Townsend2 and Karl Wagner2, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Mission Support and Test Services, LLC, Las Vegas, NV, United States
Anomalous pressure diffusion in sparse fracture systems: Insights from hydraulic and thermal field experiments at the Grimsel Underground Research Laboratory, Switzerland (581855)
Bernard Brixel, ETH Zurich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Maria Klepikova, ETH Zurich, Geological Institute, Zurich, Switzerland, Qinghua Lei, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Clément Roques, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Mohammadreza Jalali, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Simon Loew, ETH-Zuerich, Zuerich, Switzerland
Simulating flow, transport and hydrogeochemical processes within fracture networks (584843)
David Applegate, Wood, Oxford, United Kingdom, Pete Appleyard, Amec Foster Wheeler, Didcot, United Kingdom and Steven J Joyce, AMEC, Clean Energy, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
3D-Stress Controls on the Permeability of Un-propped Hydraulically Induced Fractures (587899)
Andrew Fraser-Harris1, Christopher McDermott2, Gary D Couples3, Katriona Edlmann2, Alexander Lightbody4, Florent Brondolo4, Marco Fazio5 and Martin Sauter6, (1)University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Tranent, United Kingdom, (2)University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (3)Heriot-Watt University, Institute of Geoenergy Engineering, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (4)University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (5)Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, (6)Universität Göttingen, Goettingen, Germany
A Higher-Order Finite Element Reactive Transport Model for Unstructured and Fractured Grids - Benchmark Studies, Electrochemical Migration, and Applications to CO2 Sequestration (594608)
Joachim Moortgat1, Amin Amooie1,2 and Di Zhu3, (1)Ohio State University Main Campus, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)MIT, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, United States
Modeling the fate of hydraulic fracturing fluids and injection of CO2 in shale formations: Coupling geomechanics and two-phase flow in fractured media (597309)
Jicai Zeng1, Jiamin Jiang2 and Bo Guo1, (1)University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)Chevron, Chevron Energy Technology, Houston, TX, United States
Accommodating strain by fracture growth versus fracture opening: Experimental evidence for mechanical controls on strain-induced changes in fractured rock permeability (604810)
Carl E Renshaw1, Erland M Schulson2, Daniel Iliescu2 and Andrii Murzda2, (1)Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences & Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States
How to determine hydraulic, mechanical and chemical apertures of natural fractures? (609165)
Philipp Blum1, Sina Hale1, Tobias Kling1 and Frank Wendler2, (1)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Applied Geosciences (AGW), Karlsruhe, Germany, (2)University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute of Materials Simulation, Fürth, Germany
Quantifying Natural Fracture Clustering in Basement Rock: Application of Normalized Correlation Count Method (624521)
Qiqi Wang, Austin, Texas, United States, Stephen Laubach, Univ Texas Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Julia Gale, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Investigate the Frost Heaving Induced Cracking with In-situ Stress (625172)
Xuhai Tang Sr1, Siji Tao2, Jonny Rutqvist3 and Quansheng Liu Prof2, (1)Wuhan University, School of Civil Engineering, Wuhan, China, (2)Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States
